Japanese spacecraft attempts landing on distant asteroid

An Earth copy of the sampling instrument that was loaded onto the Hayabusa2 spacecraft. Credit

Cary Marshall
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22 February, 2019, 07:26

Hayabusa-2 completed its landing late on Thursday night on to the surface of the asteroid and has since fired a bullet at the rock's surface.

Japanese Education Minister Masahiko Shibayama said the space agency had concluded from its data after the first touchdown that the steps to collect samples were performed successfully.

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has been preparing for Hayabusa2 to make contact with the asteroid for months.

Photos of Ryugu - which means "Dragon Palace" in Japanese and refers to a castle at the bottom of the ocean in an ancient Japanese tale - show an asteroid shaped a bit like a spinning top with a rough surface.

The rovers have been taking images of the asteroid and performing other functions such as measuring its surface temperature.

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